{"id":10497,"date":"2011-03-07T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"gog-com-drm-assumes-customers-are-potential-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/10497-gog-com-drm-assumes-customers-are-potential-criminals","title":{"rendered":"GOG.com: DRM assumes customers are \u201cpotential criminals\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retro gaming service Good Old Games (GOG.com) is known primarily for two things &ndash; a working version of Planescape: Torment and DRM-free downloads.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to Adventure Classic Gaming, GOG&rsquo;s PR guy Lukasz Kuwaski explains the company&rsquo;s policy-free policy, saying that &ldquo;Treating a legitimate customer like a potential criminal won&rsquo;t convince them to buy original copies of games&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In our opinion a better way to get people to spend their hard earned money on original games rather than pirating them is to give them a good value for money &ndash; offer good games for reasonable prices, making the whole experience hassle-free, adding exclusive free goodies which they won&rsquo;t get with a torrent download.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We believe adding those incentives are well worth all the work and effort rather than just adding a draconian DRM software which will only make legitimate customers&rsquo; life more difficult.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The site is owned by Polish dev CD Projekt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lukasz Kuwaski talks sense<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}